Kevin Beasley: Your face is/is not enough at Tate Liverpool

Name: Kevin Beasley: Your face is/is not enough at Tate Liverpool
Start: 2018-07-14T14:00:00
End: 2018-07-14T14:30:00
Location: Tate Liverpool

Creative Tourist Last Updated 9 July 2018

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Kevin Beasley: Your face is/is not enough

Tate Liverpool, Waterfront

14 July 2018

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Kevin Beasley: Your face is/is not enough part of Liverpool Biennial 2018 – Beautiful world, where are you? at Tate Liverpool

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Over the opening weekend of Liverpool Biennial 2018, Kevin Beasley’s sculptural installation Your face is/is not enough will be activated at Tate Liverpool through a performance as part of the work’s installation process. The activation involves a group of 12 performers, wearing masks and megaphones, who will move through Tate Liverpool in procession to the gallery, where the work will be installed by them for the remainder of the exhibition.

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